Dick Steffens wrote:
On 9/7/23 22:04, Russell Senior wrote:
On 9/7/23 11:43, Dick Steffens wrote:
20 years ago I used to use Word Perfect in Win 95, and it was easy
to print a booklet. I'm trying to achieve the same results in
LibreOffice Writer 7.3.7.2 in Xubuntu 22.04.
I have successfully managed to format the pages so that pages 1 and
4 print on one sheet, and 2 and 3 on another. My problem is that
duplex printing, which usually works fine, is not working. I'm
getting separate sheets.
The paper is defined as 11.0 wide by 8.5 high. The pages are
formatted as 5.5 wide by 8.5 high, so the end result should be one
piece of paper that, when folded, reads like a booklet with page 1
on the front, pages 2 and 3 in the middle, and page 4 on the back.
In the print dialog:
Under properties of my HP MFP 148dw
Duplex [On(Portrait)] and Paper tray [Automatic].
Range and Copies
All Pages
At the bottom there is a blue circle with a white dot in the middle
next to the word Brochure. Clicking on it does not produce a change.
I think the problem is the printer, but don't know what to do next.
What am I missing?
You could try to trick it by putting one sheet of paper in the
printer at a time, then manually reload it in the correct orientation
to print on the back.
That probably will work. That's the way I used to do it with my older
printer which didn't have a duplexer.
I agree this sounds like a printer problem. HP, so no surprise. NO CYAN!
I tried using my 20.04 machine, but same problem. I'll have to see if
there's some change I missed and if I can back out of it, or go past it.
every year in december I get to stress out figuring what libreoffice has
in store for me with book format.
The added twist is doing multiple copies, it prints the first side
goes to sleep about 3 seconds to let the
ink dry then does the second side. I used to use pdfbook2 to reformat my
book. Then print odd pages, then do even pages. No sleeping involved.
Last december libreoffice actually did what I wanted. So this year, I've
installed one new version, and still not using
the 'current' libreoffice. So who knows. my book is even more
challanging, as each sheet has 4 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 pages
printed 4 pages on each sheet.
